| 8:34am | Weekly Youtube Videos/Music Favourites | | | | For the week concluding Saturday, January 4th, 2009.Itsumo Nando - Symphony Orchestra of IndiaThe title says symphony orchestra, but it's actually a quartet, and quite lovely! They play the ending theme from Spirited Away.http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=DwOTmKeonkEYo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman - Humoresque,... |
| 10:04am | Top 5 Studio Ghibli Films | | | | Well, I suppose it's about time I made this kind of post. I'm a very big fan of Studio Ghibli films and I feel that they really stand apart from most anime that is out there today. With that being said, there are some Ghibli films which affect me on |
| 10:04am | Original Song / Japanese Poetry adapted to Music | | | | I've been trying out the Vocaloid software, which synthesizes a Japanese female voice. The name give is "Hatsune Miku". Usually they are used for pop songs, but I don't really compose that kind of music, and it seems to work somewhat decently in this context. The first |
| 3:36am | Honey and Clover Piano Videos / Downloads / Sheet Music | | | | As many people know, several of the wonderful piano pieces which were scattered throughout Honey and Clover were never released on the original soundtrack. This includes the single most significant musical manifestation of all that is Honey and Clover - the Waltz piano version. But it also includes... | | |
| 7:34am | Weekly Youtube Videos / Music | | | | Collection of youtube videos of interest for the week concluding Saturday, December 29th..This is a idea that I've decided to do, which is have a weekly post which will include youtube videos and music that I've found interesting or have discovered over the past week. I won't plug my |
| 3:34am | Samsung T220 | | | | My new widescreen wallpaper. I can't stop looking at it.Yesterday was Boxing Day here in Canada. It's sort of the equivalent of Black Friday in the United States, except everything seems a lot calmer than the stampedes that appear to happen down south. Ever since I first used a |
| 9:04am | Book: Hōjōki ( 方丈記 ) | | | | I ordered this short novel through Amazon after stumbling onto its very brief page on wikipedia. The premise interested me, and its status as a work of classic Japanese literature only cemented that interest, as I have always had a deep interest in historic literature from India, Japan, and |
| 9:05am | “Realism”, Endings, and Characters of Honey and Clover | | | | Take note that I am clearly currently in a Honey and Clover phase. I am rewatching the series for the second time, and I think I like it even more than when I first watched it. (The first time I watched it, I didn't watch any other anime | | |
| 8:09am | My Favourite Anime Episode - H&C II - 07 | | | | I have watched quite a few well-made anime series and they have had their fair share of beautiful, emotional, or simply well-done episodes and scenes. Yet, somehow, I can say with utmost confidence that the single greatest chapter of any anime I have seen is the seventh episode of the |
| 7:37am | Music of Honey and Clover | | | | Honey and Clover represents absolute perfection when it comes to the use of music. Okay, maybe I'm being too excessive, but it really is a shining example of music, both vocal and score, done right. Before Honey and Clover, I paid very little attention to vocal music of | | |
| 1:04am | How vocal music should be subtitled (in my opinion) | | | | Everything that follows is just my opinions based on my preferences, so take it with a grain of sodium chloride.A lot of people complain about official translations (by international companies) not being as good as the fan-made translations (fansubs) due to a variety reasons. There are some cases in... |
| 2:34am | Music of Kimagure Orange Road | | | | There isn't a whole lot of music from Kimagure Orange Road that stuck out for me, so this post will be rather short, and you probably shouldn't expect another orchestral remake project like I did for Maison Ikkoku (heh). With that being said, there are some pieces that I |
| 12:33am | Review: 誰も知らない (Dare mo Shiranai / Nobody Knows) | | | | Dare mo Shiranai / Nobody Knows walks the same ground of one of the best, in my opinion, Ghibli films -Grave of the Fireflies. Both stories involve a young boy, somewhere between being a child and a teenager, who must become an adult in order to care for his |
| 8:05pm | Review: Toki o Kakeru Shojo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) | | | | "Toki o Kakeru Shojo" is a story that has apparently had a very long and varied history which includes multiple adaptations, both live action and animated. I have never seen these prior adaptations, and I watched this film from a completely fresh perspective. In some ways, that can |
| 8:33am | Film Review: Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day | | | | Note: If you looking for a spoiler-free review of the series from my perspective, find my review of the TV series. This post contains spoilers, and my thoughts on the contents of this film. As the only people who would/should watch this are those who have completed the |
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